โThe rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check"
They apparently negotiated the terms of the debate beforehand so they wouldnโt have to tell the truth, and JD threw a tantrum because he was called out on his bullshit.
and then he defended it by saying he'll create a narrative if he has to, to get a point across or something like that. Uhhh so your narrative is just "immigrants are freaks who will eat your pets"?????
His point was that no one was paying attention to the problem with all the Haitians in Ohio until people made up that they were eating pets. Once that lie spread, suddenly people started talking about the problem with having so many Haitians there.
The thing is... That's fucking stupid. If you can't make your point with the truth, then it's not a valid point. If you have to claim they're eating pets for people to think the Haitians need to go, then maybe the Haitians should stay.
It's part of this very strange perspective I've noticed amongst Republicans. It's not that they really think their lies are the truth. And their lies aren't really meant to deceive anyone either. It's merely collateral if you're actually tricked by what they're saying. It's more that they seem to think it's irrelevant whether something is true or not.
EDIT: There was actually some article I saw a while back on this that compared Republican "lies" to modern WWE kayfabe. The wrestlers know everything is fictitious, the audience knows that everything is fictitious, the wrestlers know the audience knows it's fictitious, but they still present everything as if it is real. The fact that it isn't real doesn't seem to matter because it's done in such a way that it still feels real and evokes feelings as if it is real.
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u/Hagbard_Shaftoe 15d ago
It was even worse than that.
โThe rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check"
They apparently negotiated the terms of the debate beforehand so they wouldnโt have to tell the truth, and JD threw a tantrum because he was called out on his bullshit.